Russia had the potential to develop the Tu-334 aircraft project, which was already certified and manufactured from domestic components. However, instead, the choice was made in favor of the "Superjet," said economist Mikhail Khazin.
According to him, this decision turned into a disaster for domestic aviation.
Instead of a ready-made Russian aircraft with a high degree of localization, the country received a problematic project with critical dependence on Western components.
The Tu-334 was developed in the 1990s to replace the retiring Tu-154B, Yak-42, and Tu-134. The passenger airliner became a competitor to the Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft, which is why mass production never began. As a result, the Tu-334 production project was frozen, but it was never formally closed.
Earlier www1.ru reported that the MS-21 aircraft flew for the first time to test navigation systems as a regular aircraft.
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